Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic’s CEO and PangeaMT’s chief strategist, has been invited to speak at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation in Brussels later on today. He will be offering the language industry’s current perspective on Machine Translation. The conference itself, entitled Translators and Machine Translation, is geared at raising further awareness on translation automation technologies and best practices.
We append the conference programme below. Please contact us if you need further details or would like to receive a copy of Manuel’s presentation later.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Translation
Directorate R – Resources, R.3 – Informatics
TRANSLATORS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION
DGT CONFERENCE, 6 APRIL 2011, G-12 3/21– JMO M6
Programme
14.15 Welcome and introduction
by Mr Piet Verleysen, Director for Resources, DGT
14.30 Machine translation technology – introduction
by Dr Andreas Eisele, Machine Translation Project Manager, Informatics unit, DGT
15.10 Machine Translation and translators: evidence from research
by Dr Sharon O’Brien, Lecturer in Translation Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland
15.50 Machine translation: the perspective of the language industry
by Mr Manuel Herranz, owner & senior strategy officer of the “Pangeanic” translation company, Spain
16.30 Using machine translation in DGT: the experience and the perspective of a language department
by Mr Hilário Leal Fontes, translator, Portuguese Language Department, DGT
17.00 Discussion
17.30 Closing
by Mr Josep Bonet, Head of the Informatics Unit, DGT
